obscurants needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 598 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obscurants is the highest-scoring word from obscurants, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 598 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in obscurants — and it is obscurants itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obscurants produces exactly one nine-letter word: obscurant. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obscurants. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is scabrous, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obscurants produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cartons. For points, the strongest plays are carbons, cobnuts, corbans, and sacbuts — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obscurants turns up 100 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, across, actors, bursts, carton, coasts, and cobras. For points, the strongest plays are bacons, bancos, bracts, broncs, buncos, carbon, carbos, carobs, cobnut, cobras, corban, sacbut, scrobs, scrubs, and scubas — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 174 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obscurants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, about, actor, aunts, autos, bacon, and barns. For points, the strongest plays are bacon, banco, bancs, bract, bronc, bunco, carbo, carbs, carob, cobra, crabs, curbs, scabs, scrob, scrub, and scuba — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obscurants produces 173 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, anus, arts, aunt, auto, and bans. For points, the strongest plays are banc, scab, cabs, carb, cobs, crab, cubs, and curb — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obscurants turns up 94 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, art, ass, ban, bar, and bat. For points, the strongest plays are cab, cob, and cub — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obscurants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
obscurants is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
obscurants is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obscurants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obscurants, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obscurants earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in obscurants produce 598 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 100 six-letter words, 174 five-letter words, 173 four-letter words, 94 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.